This is not always as easy as it seems from the outside. But having mastered the proposed technique, you will understand the basic principles of self-control, and you can develop them.
The whole process is conventionally divided into 3 stages.
- Awareness. It is tender to realize that you are overwhelmed by feelings and you lose control over your actions. Look at the situation from the outside and evaluate it.
- Analysis. At this stage, it is useful to reflect on the current situation and understand whether objective conclusions have really been drawn.
- Reaction. After passing the previous stages, it will already be not so stormy. Try to mentally ridicule and devalue the current situation, and you will feel how the degree of your feelings subsides.
If you realize that feelings have taken possession of you, then you will also correct the strength of their manifestation. By practicing these skills regularly, you will learn how to deal with the situation.
By an effort of will, it is possible to restrain the manifestation of surging feelings or force yourself to experience those that you deem necessary in this situation. That is, to artificially introduce yourself into a certain emotional state. This is done using facial feedback.
The principle of facial expression feedback is that not only emotions cause facial expressions on a person’s face, but also vice versa. With an artificial demonstration of emotion, a person begins to experience and experience it to a certain extent.
Use this principle to your advantage.
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